From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Nov 29 2:49:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from oden.exmandato.se (oden.exmandato.se [192.71.33.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6017437B400 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 02:49:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from servicefactory.se (root@oden.exmandato.se [192.71.33.1]) by oden.exmandato.se (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA00558; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 11:48:47 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3A24DF0D.CB978E8B@servicefactory.se> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 11:48:45 +0100 From: Jonas Bulow X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: JT Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, David Tucker Subject: Re: Crystal Sound Card not recognised References: <20001129021839.A2922@sseye.ahab.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If it's of interest to any driver-writer I got the following answer from Cirrus PC Audio Support asking for details about their chips: >The CS4281 driver is in the next RedHat Release ( 7 ) and can be found under >http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.2.17pre/. >The file is pre-patch-2.2.17-20.gz which is a patch file for the 2.2.16 >final release to bring it up to 2.2.17. /J JT wrote: > > First recommendation: hey, write us one! > Second: www.opensound.com sells drivers - I just got this working on > my cheapass toshiba. Existing audio apps use it just fine. > Third: Bitching is still free and easy, but it doesn't get your card > working (what you think I didn't already try that? =) > > There are some allegations that this card is "pin compatible" with > other crystal cards, but I read Cameron's comment to mean that this > isn't as true as we would like it to be. > > Mail archives reveal that a half dozen people have asked about this > card in the past year, but then again, three of them are probably me. > It's not hard to see why this might not have the same priority as a > million other things. > > On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 06:06:17PM -0000, Cameron Grant wrote: > > > I have spent quite a bit of time fiddling trying to get the card to work > > > and would appreciate any suggestions as to how to get my box to see the > > > card. > > > > wait for a driver to be written, or write one yourself. the cs4281 is not > > compatible with any of our current drivers. > > > > -cg > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message > > -- > -. --- - / . ...- . .-. -.-- / ... .. --. -. .- - ..- .-. . / > .... .- ... / -- . .- -. .. -. --. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message